SWEET IS SLEEP TO ME AND EVEN MORE TO BE OF STONE,WHILE THE WRONG AND SHAME ENDURE.TO BE WITHOUT SIGHT OR SENSE IS A MOST HAPPY CHANGE FOR ME,THEREFORE DO NOT ROUSE ME. HUSH! SPEAK LOW. I said to God "I hate Life" God replied "Who asked you to love life? Just Love me & life will be beautiful" Living in favorable and unfavorable conditions is PART of living. Smiling in all those conditions is ART of living."Anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure you're worshiping an idol"

Valentine's Day has turned out to be very grim day for lovers in many parts of the country. There have been many instances of young couples being beaten up, humiliated and some of them have even been forcibly married off by the moral police.

Jind,Haryana: A sub-inspector publicly beat up a couple and even dragged the girl to the police station by her hair. Later, on reaching the police station he could not figure out what charges to press, so he meted out more punishment. The cop has now been suspended.

Ujjain,Madhya Pradesh: A brother and sister face the ire of the moral police. Bajrang Dal activists brutally assaulted them assuming them to be lovers. Police posted at the university campus rushed in and brought the situation under control; however no FIR has been registered

Pune,Maharashtra: Shiv Sainiks forcibly married off two couples sitting in a park. Reports say other couples present in the park managed to escape before they faced a similar fate.

Sangli,Maharashtra: Shiv Sainiks seemed to think love is frankly asinine, so they married off this young man to a donkey.(Comment: OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! )Ranchi,Jharkhand: The moral brigade made young Romeos to sit ups as punishment for love.

Video showing publicly beating of a man with sticks, in a PCPA running kangaroo courts in Midnapore India The People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA), an alleged front of the Maoists in West Bengal, is running kangaroo courts and dispensing its own justice.

When Aishuria Rai can marry a Banana tree than anything is possible in Bhangee land!!

Kinky!!! And I'm not talking about the marriage thing, rather at the choice of plant she chose (banana)

SWEET IS SLEEP TO ME AND EVEN MORE TO BE OF STONE,WHILE THE WRONG AND SHAME ENDURE.TO BE WITHOUT SIGHT OR SENSE IS A MOST HAPPY CHANGE FOR ME,THEREFORE DO NOT ROUSE ME. HUSH! SPEAK LOW. I said to God "I hate Life" God replied "Who asked you to love life? Just Love me & life will be beautiful" Living in favorable and unfavorable conditions is PART of living. Smiling in all those conditions is ART of living."Anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure you're worshiping an idol"

Must Read !Indians are Hobbesian.(culture of self interest)Corruption in India is a cultural aspect.Indians seem to think nothing peculiar about corruption .It is everywhere.Indians tolerate corrupt individuals rather than correct them.No race can be congenitally corrupt.But can a race be corrupted by its culture?To know why Indians are corrupt ,look at their patterns and practices .First:Religion is transactional in India .Indians give God cash and anticipate an out-of-turn reward.Such a plea acknowledges that favours are needed for the undeserving.In the world outside the temple walls, such a transaction is named- “bribe”.A wealthy Indian gives not cash to temples,but gold crowns and such baubles.His gifts can not feed the poor. His pay-off is for God.He thinks it will be wasted if it goes to a needy man.In June 2009, The Hindu published a report of Karnataka ministerG. Janardhan Reddy gifting a crown of gold and diamonds worthRs 45 crore to Tirupati.India’s temples collect so much thatthey don't know what to do with it.Billions are gathering dust in temple vaults.When Europeans came to India they built schools.When Indians go to Europe & USA, they build temples.Indians believe that if God accepts money for his favours,then nothing is wrong in doing the same thing.This is why Indians are so easily corruptible.Indian culture accommodates such transactions morally.There is no real stigma. An utterly corrupt Jaya Lalita canmake a comeback, just unthinkable in the West.Second -Indian moral ambiguity towards corruption is visible in its history.Indian history tells of the capture of cities and kingdoms after guardswere paid off to open the gates, and commanders paid off to surrender.This is unique to India .Indians' corrupt nature has meant limited warfare on the subcontinent.It is striking how little Indians have actually fought compared toancient Greece and modern Europe .The Turks’ battles with Nadir Shah were vicious and fought to the finish.In India fighting wasn't needed, bribing was enough to see off armies.Any invader willing to spend cash could brush aside India ’s kings,no matter how many tens of thousands soldiers were in their infantry.Little resistance was given by the Indians at the “ Battle ” of Plassey.Clive paid off Mir Jaffar and all of Bengal folded to an army of 3,000.There was always a financial exchange to taking Indian forts.Golconda was captured in 1687 after the secret back door was left open.Mughals vanquished Marathas and Rajputs with nothing but bribes.The Raja of Srinagar gave up Dara Shikoh’s son Sulaiman toAurangzeb after receiving a bribe.There are many cases where Indians participatedon a large scale in treason due to bribery.Question is: Why Indians have a transactional culture whileother 'civilized' nations don't?Third -Indians do not believe in the theory that they all can riseif each of them behaves morally, because that is notthe message of their faith.Their caste system separates them.They don't believe that all men are equal.This resulted in their division and migration to other religions .Many Hindus started their own faith like Sikh, Jain, Buddha and many converted to Christianity and Islam. The result is that Indians don't trust one another .There are no Indians in India ,there are Hindus ,Christians, Muslims and what not.

Indians forget that 400 years ago they all belonged to one faith. This division evolved an unhealthy culture.The inequality has resulted in a corrupt society,In India every one is thus against everyone else,except God ­ and even he must be bribed.

SWEET IS SLEEP TO ME AND EVEN MORE TO BE OF STONE,WHILE THE WRONG AND SHAME ENDURE.TO BE WITHOUT SIGHT OR SENSE IS A MOST HAPPY CHANGE FOR ME,THEREFORE DO NOT ROUSE ME. HUSH! SPEAK LOW. I said to God "I hate Life" God replied "Who asked you to love life? Just Love me & life will be beautiful" Living in favorable and unfavorable conditions is PART of living. Smiling in all those conditions is ART of living."Anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure you're worshiping an idol"

The above blog post is by an Indian, presumably an adherent of the Hindu faith, while his take on the social ills facing Indian society is obviously colored by his world view, it nevertheless provides a good window into the understanding of corruption in India. While reading it I also couldn't help but reflect upon the bitter and unpalatable similarities staring in our faces when it comes to corruption in our society albeit the transactional nature with God is not as prevalent except among the poor, illiterate and misguided minority who rely on pirs and what not.

The other thing which the aforementioned blog post sheds light on is our leaders' sell-out nature and the apparent "impotence" of our armed forces when facing external threats. That in turn opens the possibility of dealing with Indian generals/politicians if and when a hot conflicts flares up between Pakistan and India, and on the flip side the vulnerability of our generals/politicians to Indian greasing of palms so to speak.

Just thinking out loud.

SWEET IS SLEEP TO ME AND EVEN MORE TO BE OF STONE,WHILE THE WRONG AND SHAME ENDURE.TO BE WITHOUT SIGHT OR SENSE IS A MOST HAPPY CHANGE FOR ME,THEREFORE DO NOT ROUSE ME. HUSH! SPEAK LOW. I said to God "I hate Life" God replied "Who asked you to love life? Just Love me & life will be beautiful" Living in favorable and unfavorable conditions is PART of living. Smiling in all those conditions is ART of living."Anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure you're worshiping an idol"

^^ for this very reason, no matter what indians say and claim, their country can never be a shuperpower .. the average indian is way too docile and wimpy to bring change, they just dont have what it takes .. the innovation of the american, the ruggedness of the russian, the tenacity of the german, the dedication of the chinese...

I think when it comes to docility in the face of injustice and corruption, we're in the same boat.

SWEET IS SLEEP TO ME AND EVEN MORE TO BE OF STONE,WHILE THE WRONG AND SHAME ENDURE.TO BE WITHOUT SIGHT OR SENSE IS A MOST HAPPY CHANGE FOR ME,THEREFORE DO NOT ROUSE ME. HUSH! SPEAK LOW. I said to God "I hate Life" God replied "Who asked you to love life? Just Love me & life will be beautiful" Living in favorable and unfavorable conditions is PART of living. Smiling in all those conditions is ART of living."Anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure you're worshiping an idol"

Hakim Bey: Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head
Napoleon Bonaparte: The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people!

SWEET IS SLEEP TO ME AND EVEN MORE TO BE OF STONE,WHILE THE WRONG AND SHAME ENDURE.TO BE WITHOUT SIGHT OR SENSE IS A MOST HAPPY CHANGE FOR ME,THEREFORE DO NOT ROUSE ME. HUSH! SPEAK LOW. I said to God "I hate Life" God replied "Who asked you to love life? Just Love me & life will be beautiful" Living in favorable and unfavorable conditions is PART of living. Smiling in all those conditions is ART of living."Anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure you're worshiping an idol"